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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern Italian (especially Naples) : reduced form of Ippolito. Compare French Hypolite, Greek Politis.
  • Southern Italian (especially Naples) : from Politēs, a shortened form of medieval Greek Konstantinopolitēs, an ethnic name for someone from Constantinople.

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